Julian Assange

News about Julian Assange, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Jul. 4, 2015

French Pres Francois Hollande rejects request by WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange for protection, which he made in open letter published on website of Le Monde. MORE

Mar. 14, 2015

Swedish prosecutors, seeking to question Wikileaks founder Julian Assange before statute of limitations on 2010 rape allegations are reached, agree to conduct interview at Ecuadoran Embassy in London, where he has been living since 2012. MORE

Nov. 21, 2014

Swedish court upholds four-year-old order for the detention of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over accusations of sexual assault; ruling is bitter defeat for Assange, Australian who fled to Ecuadoran Embassy in London, as his lawyers seek to have order withdrawn. MORE

Oct. 23, 2014

Wiki License, commercial arm of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, is working with companies around the world to create line of officially sanctioned apparel and merchandise, some of it bearing Assange's face; venture brings into question relationship between personal and commercial branding, the language of rebellion and monetizing of revolution. MORE

Aug. 19, 2014

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says that he will soon be leaving the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where he was given asylum two years ago, but provides no specifics. MORE

Jul. 17, 2014

Swedish court uphold its detention order on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, reaffirming legal basis for international warrant that has kept him hiding in Ecuadorean Embassy in London for two years. MORE

Oct. 6, 2013

Julian Assange of WikiLeaks, already a documentary subject, is now the focus of Bill Condon feature film The Fifth Estate; Assange burst into public consciousness in 2010 with WikiLeaks' release of Apache helicopter attack video, revealing millions of secrets and unlocking rarefied kind of fame. MORE

Sep. 15, 2013

Op-Ed article by Australian journalist Julia Baird describes how WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's bid for a seat in the Australian Senate was undone by accusations that he acted like other politicians. MORE

Sep. 4, 2013

Swedish police open investigation after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange urges them to find out what happened to suitcase he thinks was stolen from him by intelligence agents as he traveled from Sweden to Germany in 2010. MORE

Jul. 26, 2013

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange formally inaugurates a new political party and declares his own unorthodox candidacy for a seat in the Australian Senate in national elections to be held later this year; says he has every confidence in his ability to run a campaign from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where he has been living under asylum for more than a year to avoid being extradited to Sweden. MORE

Jun. 25, 2013

WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, seemingly forgotten until their public support for Edward J Snowden, have in fact been under investigation by at least four United States agencies since 2010 leaks of American classified documents; wide-ranging investigations involve tens of thousands of pages of evidence and grand jury subpoenas for at least four former members of organization. MORE

Jun. 24, 2013

WikiLeaks again seizes global spotlight by assisting Edward J Snowden in his daring flight from Hong Kong to Moscow, mounting bold defense of culture of national security disclosures; group has provided legal and logistical support to Snowden, sending British activist Sarah Harrison to accompany him on flight; founder Julian Assange has met with Ecuadorean representatives to support request for asylum. MORE

Jun. 4, 2013

Officials from Ecuador and Great Britain are scheduled to meet to discuss case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been holed up for nearly a year in Ecuadorean Embassy, foiling British attempts to extradite him to Sweden to face charges of sexual misconduct. MORE

May. 29, 2013

Ecuador's foreign minister accuses British government of trampling on the human rights of the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by refusing to allow him to travel to Ecuador, which granted him political asylum in 2012. MORE

Dec. 20, 2012

Alex Gibney's upcoming documentary We Steal Secrets, about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, is first of several Hollywood films about the little-known people who grew larger than the most powerful of governments by using the Internet to broadcast their secrets. MORE

Oct. 8, 2012

Publisher OR Books announces that it has acquired Cypherpunks, a book about freedom and the Internet by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange; book will go on sale in November 2012 in paperback and as an e-book. MORE

Sep. 11, 2012

Many Ecuadoreans have rallied around Pres Rafael Correa for standing up to Great Britain in an asylum dispute involving WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. MORE

Aug. 22, 2012

British officials say that hackers attacked several government Web sites over a 24-hour period, after the activist group Anonymous suggested it had done so to protest the handling of the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. MORE

Aug. 21, 2012

Op-Ed article by filmmakers Michael Moore and Oliver Stone applauds Ecuador's decision to grant diplomatic asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange; suggests British and Swedish governments' main goal is to get Assange to Sweden, where he could probably be more easily extradited to the United States; warns extradition would have grave consequences for freedom of speech around the world. MORE

Aug. 20, 2012

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gives speech from balcony at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, casting himself as one of the world's most persecuted whistle-blowers; Assange, who has been granted asylum from British efforts to extradite him to Sweden, calls for the United States to renounce what he calls its witch hunt against WikiLeaks. MORE

Aug. 20, 2012

Op-Ed article by Prof Anita Isaacs asserts that Ecuador's decision to grant asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a reminder of Pres Rafael Correa's leadership style at home, and his potential should he assume a leadership role on the Latin American left. MORE

Aug. 19, 2012

London police who have been ordered to prevent fugitive WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from leaving Britain have had him under constant surveillance outside the Ecuadorean Embassy; Ecuador's granting of asylum appears to have left him no closer to any long-term relief from his legal problems, and many believe the siege could last months, even years. MORE

Aug. 17, 2012

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange finds himself facing a long stay in Ecuador's embassy in London, after the British government vows to arrest him the moment he steps out of the building, despite Ecuador's decision to grant him asylum. MORE

Aug. 16, 2012

Government of Ecuador says that it is prepared to allow WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to remain in its embassy in London indefinitely under a type of humanitarian protection; Assange arrived at the embassy on June 19, seeking to avoid being sent to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over allegations that he sexually assaulted two women. MORE

Aug. 15, 2012

Pres Rafael Correa of Ecuador denies report posted on the Web site of The Guardian that he has decided to grant asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. MORE

Jul. 25, 2012

WikiLeaks announces that it has hired Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon to lead the legal team representing the site and its founder, Julian Assange. MORE

Jun. 21, 2012

British and Ecuadorean authorities are at a standoff as Julian Assange, the principal founder of WikiLeaks who is wanted for arrest in Britain and Sweden, prepares to spend a second night in the small Ecuadorean Embassy in London where he is seeking political asylum. MORE

Jun. 20, 2012

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is seeking protective asylum in Ecuador from the Swedish and American governments; Assange faces extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning concerning allegations of sexual abuse and rape. MORE

Jun. 15, 2012

Britain’s Supreme Court rejects a final move by the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, to reopen his appeal of a ruling ordering him extradited to Sweden to face allegations of sexual abuse and rape; court also rules that he must be extradited by midnight on July 7, barring further legal intervention. MORE

May. 31, 2012

Britain’s highest court rules that Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, should be deported to Sweden to face allegations of sexual abuse there, but Assange’s lawyers win an immediate stay of at least two weeks before British officials can initiate the final steps to hand him over to Stockholm. MORE

Apr. 18, 2012

Alessandra Stanley describes the first episode of Julian Assange's syndicated television talk show The World Tomorrow, in which he interviews Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, on the Russian network RT. MORE

Feb. 20, 2012

Bill Keller Op-Ed column offers an assessment of the impact of the release of classified information by WikiLeaks, as well as a roundup of what has become of both its founder Julian Assange and Army Private Bradley Manning, who was accused of divulging secret United States military documents to the organization; argues that the most palpable legacy of the organization's campaign for transparency is that the US government is more secretive than ever. MORE

Feb. 3, 2012

Prosecutors argue for the extradition of WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, to Sweden in a sexual misconduct case during the last day of a two-day hearing in Great Britain; warn that failing to send him abroad would 'undermine' the extradition system in Europe. MORE

Dec. 17, 2011

British Supreme Court agrees to hear appeal from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on an order extraditing him to Sweden to answer questions of sexual misconduct. MORE

Dec. 6, 2011

British High Court gives permission for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to make a final appeal to Britain's highest judicial authority against extradition to Sweden, where he is accused of sexual abuse. MORE

Nov. 6, 2011

News analysis; fate of WikiLeaks seems on the surface to be tied up with its founder Julian Assange, but the organization's struggle to survive may be more of a function of the nature of whistle-blowing; WikiLeaks represents a major technological advance in the art and mechanism of leaking classified information, but it has done little to mitigate the danger posed to whistle-blowers. MORE

Nov. 3, 2011

British court rules that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden for questioning over allegations of sexual abuse made against him by two women; Assange will seek a final appeal at Britain's highest court. MORE

Oct. 25, 2011

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange holds news conference to announce that his Web site may be forced to shut down by end of year because of financial issues; blames 10-month-old 'financial blockade' for reduction in donations. MORE

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A Swedish court upheld its detention order on the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, on Wednesday, reaffirming the legal basis for an international warrant that has kept him hiding in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London for two years.